skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No this is EMH at work. Main street has realized that they can attack short positions which are unnatural in size. And they intend to get paid for doing it.

Hedge funds are so used to being the only tool on the block, they overextended, and for the first(?) time the retail side is fighting back.

The professional investing world have so many advantages over main street that it's not even funny. They've got everything from frontrunning, colocation, free money, and leverage(10x), 'unsophisticated' investors only can dream of this. And when they do go belly up, tax payers bail them out, meanwhile the bonus machine keeps churning.

But it is funny and good when main street actually catches them with their hand in the cookie jar.

How is this different from Bill Ackmans attack on Herbal life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQc6L4ieMwo

How is this different from all the FUD Tesla has gotten over the years? Which CNBC has happily broadcast for years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-YgFDAroeI
Tracking R/WSB Stonks
I made this last weekend as a fun side project to track the stocks that r/wallstreetbets is talking about. The ticker detection is pretty rough, but for a ~6 hour project, it's actually pretty decent.

Feedback welcome, of course. I thought you guys would get a kick out of it.

Built on Flask/React/Postgres
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Every day of 2021 I'm thinking those people with the guillotine were less crazy.
Because Antifa is the armed wing of the Democrat party, and people on HN and SV typically trend left.
Yep. It can be directly used in several scenarios for systems built in all sorts of technologies. Join the conversation :).
CTRM (Castor Maritime), BB, NOK, GME, AmC, and others! Important no stock delisted goes unmentioned. Don't let them win, not a single hand!
Can you also use it to send real-time messages ?
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> Not to mention that you need an extremely loose definition of "copy".

Makes me wonder, with a nearly perfect simulation for a reinforcement learning agent and a human brain or equivalent architecture, would you be able to make exact copies. Assuming the PRNGs and other settings were deterministic. Now that would be an interesting and controversial experiment.
I find the actions of billionaires petty. This is a world of absurd valuations, stocks skyrocketing despite experiencing the equivalent of a world war. And they can't let go of a few billion to some random redditors?

The billionaire class is made to look bad with this, and billionaires must stop this reaction in order to restore the faith and trust in the Ancien regime of the markets.
The browser may crash, albeit it may be due to my QT version (I use Slackware current). Falkon has been much more stable on Slackware 14.2.
I see a lot of young get-rich-quickers there. People who want to do things like borrow money to short stocks with.
They are still owned by the same group of people, with conflicting interests: one side supports a trading platform, the other side just bailed out a moribund fund and needs to make that money back.

What side do you think wins given the huge hole left in Citadel after propping up Melvin?
Money is the greatest coordinating force in the history of civilization.
And very useful. We used them to power shortwave radios in '93, during the war in the Balkans to figure out what the heck was going on since there were communication blackouts.
yes and no. Modern cars automatically (most with an option to disable) lock the doors, yes. This is to maintain crash integrity BTW. Not anti-carjacking as many folks seem to assume. But also, it's required that the doors mechanically unlock when you use the interior handle.

In this case:

> That’s because the car’s retractable door handles, which are supposed to “auto-present” when they detect a key fob nearby, malfunctioned and first responders weren’t able to open the doors and save Awan, the suit alleges.

It didn't matter. Clearly Awan was unconscious or unable to extricate himself. As you said, most cars auto-lock the doors. If the doors were locked (we don't know from this article), it wouldn't matter if the handles "auto presented" themselves or not. They wouldn't be able to open them from outside the car. If the doors were unlocked, well that's a different story.
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To some degree, they have a legal responsibility due to the "suitability standard" (link below) to do this. While they aren't recommending GME and the others per se, they certainly profit from the order flow as well as new account sign-ups. People may be making money now, but those who lose their shirts -- especially if the RH platform crashes when they try to exit a position -- are going to be angry. Preventing purchases in the first place is a way to keep those people from litigating, and to demonstrate to regulators that RH didn't attempt to profit from a mad dash toward unsuitable investments.

https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/2...

Their platform is probably inundated with open orders on these few names, as the price is all over the place. They had outages back in March 2020 and presumably there's a risk of the same if everyone tries to close their positions at the same time (eg, if u/deepf**ingvalue announces that he has exited).
FTA: Awan, a 48-year-old anesthesiologist and father of five, leased the Model S for two reasons, family attorney Stuart Grossman said: He was environmentally sensitive and safety conscious.

I'd say his family got a damn good lawyer, and by that I mean shameless.
I’m seeing so much news about this but don’t understand what’s happening. Can someone do a recap?
CTRM (Castor Maritime) to that list! important to track all delisted apps. Can't leave any of em behind. Don't let them win a single hand!
>This is why I put academic fields adjacent to "identity politics" in the same category as climate change

This is why academic fields involved with "identity politics" are in the same class as "scientists" involved in climate change denial and questionable nutrition/smoking studies. Once there were academics involved in "critic theory" which more or less used Marxist level of analysis. A thorn in the side of the establishment. A branch within this field took the language of Marxism but replaced capitalist/working class with identities(e.g white men/minority women). Ofcourse those in power have supported this branch of critic theory and have gotten to the point where they even use it as a wedge issue. At this point this is the orthodox branch of "critic theory" and it's not because of intellectual merit.
Chuck Feeney (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Feeney)
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I feel that your argument started out very strong but fell off a cliff at the end by making similarly alienating comments to what your parent made.
Perhaps? But if someone had that attitude, and couldn't be bothered to discuss design impacting changes with the devs who are making sweeping changes impacted by the contributor's change? In that case I don't want them on my project, because they are toxic, and probably toxic in other ways.

More people need to realize that Open Source projects are a gift from the authors to the software community. Other developers do not have the right to make changes, push for the development to go in a certain direction, etc. If an author wants that they'll turn stewardship over to a committee and maybe be part of such a committee. You have only two rights with Open Source work you want to work differently: fork it or forget about it (i.e., not use it). Anything else is a massive gift from the maintainer(s) and should be viewed as such.

And yeah, as you can tell from the last paragraph I'll proudly wear an Arsehole button to avoid wearing a Burnout button. Heck, to borrow from Bruce Lee in Snowcrash, I'd even wear a "12 Gauge" button to avoid burnout (button only though, the behavior is not for me).
I put incite in "dick quotes" to emphasize that it has become the specific word with which to paint a comment _about_ violence when you don't like the message or the messenger, not to minimize or parody what happened on the 6th.

Calm down, Bud.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6omry/an_o...

I'm not so sure
Somebody's really going to have to go out of their way to email a patch — they might even read the `CONTRIBUTING` document which says "Thanks but no!".

The Github Pull Request interface is an attractive nuisance, like an unfenced swimming pool. You can't keep people out with warning signs, they won't read them. Put up a fence, though, and even the obtuse will get discouraged.
Companies do not make decisions.
People owning these companies make decisions.
Reminds me of this Firefox concept: http://web.archive.org/web/20090801232011/informationarchite...
Something interesting from the only US-based case: Facebook maintains internally a list of "dangerous individuals" (upon which is evidently the infamous Nazi Joseph Goebbels) which they do not make public.

This seemingly contributed to the Oversight Board's decision to overturn the removal of the Goebbels' quote.
https://oversightboard.com/decision/FB-2RDRCAVQ/
As someone who is not very educated in finance, I'm curious how to interpret today's events. Is nasdaq/robinhood/everyone else transparently manipulating the market on behalf of hedge funds? Or are these standard mechanisms in place for preventing the stock market from swinging wildly out of control? I don't know if it's standard to completely block trading on one or more stocks.
People have had enough, it's not just WSB anymore. The community of retail investors in GME is far beyond WSB. It's people that are frustrated with the 1% getting bailed out time and time again and them not seeing a dime at their tax dollar expense.
Retail traders are literally locked out of buying new shares... they were a scapegoat the whole time.

$GME is up 11% as of the writing of this post. Who is buying it?

This is actually making me angry to watch.

-edit-

I had like one share - Robinhood just sold my shares without me ordering it. Dunno what happened there.
short numbers almost always lag atleast a week from what the average person can see.
>It was clearly taken over by folks intending to have it shut down because it did not look like that prior to this GME bet gaining media attention.

That's one theory. Another would be that the gaining media attention caused an influx of users to join a group that equates itself to 4chan, causing moderation issues.
This is market manipulation 101. I hope they pay for it, but I doubt any lawmaker is interested in investigating them.
Are you serious? BLM murdered an 8 year old black girl in atlanta and terrorized people by taking over seattle, and restaurants. They most definitely tried to use political attacks as leverage. The capital riots were patriots who have been upset that the corrupt courts refused to allow anybody to present evidence of fraud when there is more than enough out there to show
I like to see winners, it's not a zero sum game

Short selling absolutely is a zero sum game.
Do you mean MIT?

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,

(https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Similar language is also in basically every other license.
This is a poor quality submission to this forum.

I've been in WSB for ages, and it was, is and will always be about the money.
This is just a rant. There's no insight, evidence or analysis to be found in the article.
The other day I opened an issue on a project to mention that the project is not respecting some powerful convention (by dumping stuff when the user's
configuration is to not dump stuff), and the project maintainer replied by saying that he doesn't care... that he thinks his choice is better.

I'm quite angry because I spent time investigating this problem and now it won't be fixed and it is not logical and I've lost my time.
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Be that as it may, it's possible for the driver to be a lethally reckless idiot and for Tesla to have dangerous door handles.
In most places, the proximate cause of the pressure is gravity, which continues working in the face of a power outage. In many places, electric pumps have to raise the water to a tower or reservoir, but there's a buffer of water at height that can be drawn upon when the power is out. Yes, it'll run out eventually, but it meets the need in the short run.
What about robinhood's platform not being to handle the activity level and are concerned about their ability to execute all the trades while managing the book probably given their history on execution. Thus they had to limit purchases as they expected more surges and then a lot of risk on Friday settlement.
huh. i always thought there wasn’t any money in saving the world. guess i was wrong.
Seeing a comment like this on HN shows the risk here. If people here don’t understand the difficulty in scaling to meet huge spikes in demand, how are ordinary retail investors supposed to understand it?

It’s one thing to handle “a trade.” It’s another thing to handle everyone trying to trade at exactly the same second. We already saw broker apps have issues this week just on handling the buy volume. The sell volume will be far higher.

And I mentioned counterparties too. Even if the technology works, you can’t sell if everyone else is selling too.
>Because the chat app doesn't encrypt conversations by default—or at all for group chats—security professionals often warn against it.

Everytime this story comes up it just complains about the default setting.

Terribly reasearched articled. It offeres no insight to HNers compared to previous discussion. A bad workman blames his tools. Defaults are powerful -- I will concede. Not understanding defaults counts as not understanding your tool.

I don't even believe WhatsApp is E2E but I've no evidence to proove that -- I'm just that skeptical of FB. I believe FB are reading WA messages but again -- nothing to base that on other than FB being heavily incentived to do so.
I have a lot of trouble with this frame. Yes, hedge funds are bad. Yes, it's hilarious watching those shorts get squeezed. No, WSB are not modern Sherwood bandits trading on Robinhood. They are also engaged in what is pretty clearly a criminal conspiracy to commit securities fraud (and yes, a deliberate attempt to trigger a short squeeze is securities fraud), and they're doing it on an open internet forum. This is not going to end well for anyone involved.

Demonizing your enemies and styling yourself a hero of the people does not protect you from prosecution. We just saw that in the capitol not three weeks ago.

As for GME? Yes, that stock is coming down. Yes, the hedge fund can probably arrange financing to hold longer than the bandits can. Yes, it's probably going to be the "little guys" holding the bag at the end of this.

It's criminals all around as far as I can see.
Well the GME short squeeze at least. It's sending a message.
You got things a bit mixed up.

There's Citadel Asset Management, the quant hedge fund (which is probably the one that lent money to Melvin, though I'm not sure about that), and Citadel Securities the HFT / market-making show (they have the same owner).

HFT market-making using retail order flow isn't front-running - the price the customers get is the same regardless ("Best Bid Offer" as brokers are legally required to provide in the US). The difference is, once that the HFT market maker holds the stock, they can get rid of it more easily (i.e. they can close the trade) because (the assumption is that) the retail flow is "noise" (uncorrelated with future price movements) as opposed to professional/institutional traders (e.g. other hedge funds executing their strategies), where a big problem is negative selection (i.e. you're more likely to execute a trade with someone that has better information than you).
You can configure it to poll for messages on a fixed interval. Pushing is not possible since it would sacrifice the battery life.
I can’t imagine a scenario where the SEC goes after reddit of all places.
> Does it feel good to get one up on a hedge fund idiot that was trying to manipulate GameStop the other way? Yes - but this is, at best, financial vigilantism.

Hedge funds do this to each other every day. Why is it suddenly wrong when it’s retail investors on the other side of the trade?

I truly do not understand the naïveté of arguments like these. Only the wealthy should be allowed to game the price of assets and rip each other off?
>> helping mitigate risk for our clients

It's cute when they phrase it like that, though everyone understands that it should be "chosen clients that make us most money"
This is literally an event that options / derivatives were made for.

If you're a long GME holder who feels like this price is temporary: you can buy calls or sell puts (bull-trades). Or, you can sell calls or buy puts (bear-trades).

If you own a ton of the underlying and are willing to be "forced to sell" the stock, selling calls would be a marvelous option to benefit from the uncertainty of the situation. Worst case scenario, you end up holding the GME stock (ie: lost the game of musical chairs). But you'll be paid for that risk.
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Nice! I have always wanted to build one of these for my car. Can you report on the latency of your dashboard?
All that happened was a "Sorry, there was a problem typesetting your CV." without any latex output. If I change to a different template, or remove my publication list, all works as expected.

(Thanks!)
Apparently there's an early buyer of one of these stocks who made $40 million off of it; I last read they only sold $14 million of their position so far.
I also appreciate that it is considerate of its customers' Internet connection:

> This is the complete video. This is a large file, make sure you have a broadband connection like DSL or Cable.

> This file is too large to download from a dial up connection.

(The file itself is indicated as being 30MB)

Also, this site is on the fastest side of the Internet, despite seemingly calling an exe each time, as per other comments.
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One of the best parts about growing up in So Cal was the fact that every once in a while there would be a few girls at school who would have coolers with dozens and dozens of hot homemade Tamale's for sale.
Robinhood explicitly disavows itself of that responsibility. Quoting from their literature:

> If you are interested in opening an account where you do not receive recommendations or advice about whether to buy or sell investments or investment strategies or account monitoring, and you make all of your own investment decisions, then a self-directed brokerage like ours could be the right fit for you. Robinhood Financial does not have account minimums for any brokerage accounts. Robinhood Financial does not provide recommendations. We are not subject to a fiduciary duty to you and do not monitor or manage your account, including the monitoring of brokerage account investments, unless we state otherwise in writing. Since we do not provide recommendations and you must make all of your own investment decisions, the licenses, education and other qualifications of our financial professionals will not be relevant to your investment decisions. Robinhood Financial professionals are available only to provide account support through an online email system. If you choose our services, you must be comfortable with investing your assets on your own.
Once again, this insistence on viewing 'Wall Street' as a monolothic entity. The largest asset management firm on Earth holds over 9 million Gamestop stock, none of the big banks that received bailouts in 08 are affected by this, 99.9% of hedge funds are not affected by this, high frequency traders are probably making a bundle. Institutional money was long Gamestop before this story entered the public consciousness. The idea of governments stepping in to bolster hedge funds is ludicrous, the whole point is that the government and SEC is hands off with them.

Ultimately, a few medium-sized hedge funds were caught doing something stupid and the market has rightfully taught them a lesson. It's great that retail investors got in on a high-level play like this and made money.
>As a result of the belief among the pro investor crowd that GameStop was, essentially, doomed, they began shorting the stock -- essentially betting on it to fail. This happens all the time to a variety of stocks with very little fanfare. It is the way of the modern stock market.

This article somehow missed the abnormal part where there were more short positions than shares in circulation. It's like doing fractional reserve banking with stocks except without any regulations. A short squeeze is just a bank run with this analogy. This does not happen all the time. It's entirely dependent on those who kept shorting the stock without making sure that they can cover their shorts.
What's interesting to me is that there is a populist narrative at play, but wouldn't WSB overshort a stock too if they thought they could?
Yes, we have customers using CrateDB as part of their proprietary product.

Also the SSPL is so vague, that we probably would not only have to release CrateDB itself - which we already do, but also everything we use for the services we provide. Also we could never make any kind of deals with OEMs, etc.
lmfao - even by your low standards that's pathetic.
Silicon Valley’s problem is not an excess of frat-house behavior. It’s worse
If you're negotiating with a founder it's one thing. If you're negotiating with someone who has to run changes five levels up to a legal department that's going to have to assign someone to do a contract review that's something pretty different.
Thank you!

That's awesome to hear, have those 15 years been an overall improvement for you?

Less is more, but the trauma and pain some people endure is out of this world.
I had a pending market order fill at opening but now by brokerage mobile app won't log me in.
For anyone coming in now, dang’s recap comment provides some resources with background information on what’s happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25933543
SolarWinds' contract wasn't great – developers could have known before signing
S.F. tech companies reducing presence in the city
So who's the CEO of this “antifa”?
Shouldn't they have an arbitration clause in there somewhere? Maybe that would open them to a Thousand Papercut bleeding when everyone activate the arbitration clause at once.
I just checked my TD Ameritrade account. I'm able to buy GME just fine (though I didn't hit the "confirm" button).

I know RobinHood messed up here. But... they never had a good reputation to begin with. Its an open secret that RobinHood's entire setup is kind of crap.
Any reason my Antivirus considers it a problem?
"
C:\Program Files\qutebrowser\qutebrowser.exe is infected with Gen:Variant.Mikey.118185
"
This is with Bitdefender.

I downloaded the prebuilt windows binary from https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/releases
The real solution Vivaldi offers to the tabpocalypse has been here for ages: tabs on the side instead of on top! We all have widescreen monitors now, so losing 50 or 100 pixels on the horizontal plane isn't really a big problem. And the tabs then become scrollable downwards, while still keeping their readability. It took me a couple of days to get used to them over on the sidebar, but I could never go back.
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Switch to WeBull, works great.
You are probably right. But then the question is: why do they write it into the contract from the beginning.

One reason might be to have the non-legal but moral upperhand: "Hey, don't be angry - you agreed to these conditions when you signed the contract."

Even if they don't matter in court, I think asking to strike these parts is still good idea. And be it just to see how they react to your suggestion.
That's because cell broadcast stations have big ol' UPS hookups and even diesel generators as backups